Tinbergs on Tour

March 15, 2026 – At Sea – Caribbean Sea - Mostly Sunny - 79F

NOTE: Elevator buttons both in the car and to summon the elevators are now covered in plastic – 

something to do with sanitation we were told. Even on our heavily infected COVID cruises, no one covered the elevator buttons with plastic.  It doesn’t help because if you touch the buttons or touch the plastic, you are still touching. These covers stayed on for the remainder of the cruise.

Up early (of course) and it looks like a beautiful day as seen from our stateroom.

I got to the Terrace Cafe just as the sun was coming up (the second sunrise of this cruise).

The breakfast was once again perfect and the view just as nice.

Afternoon lectures mean unhurried breakfast and time to look over the material.  The lectures continue today with “Opened Unsolved Cases – Solved with Genetic Genealogy”.  The talk was at 2 PM so I went down to the theater at 1:30PM and found the theater closed for rehearsal.  I hung out in Martinis until 11:40PM and went to the theater and set up.  While I was setting up, Gilbert, the AV Tech, actually called the room looking for me.  Ironically, I was in the theater at the time.

The turnout was good – the rocking had stopped and I could move away from the podium to deliver the talk.  It went well, the audience seemed interested, and it ran 43 minutes.  There was a talk after me so he had plenty of time to set up. 

Tonight, we changed things up for dinner by going to the Main Dining Room (served by Olga from Peru) and both had Ribeye steaks.  The steaks were good – we are not going to eat like this when we get home – who knows what those steaks cost now.  

Tonight the ship was having an Academy Awards Show in the theater.  We walked across the pool deck, which was amazing in the gloaming.

We went to see what was going on even though we have no idea who the norminees are.  They did have popcorn but when we got there the theater was empty and the screen blank.  We were told that reception is spotty at sea and there was no signal at the moment.

The Entertainment Team was performing the ABBA Dance Party in Horizons at 9:00 PM.  They had different takes on the songs I know by heart but it was an entertaining show. One passenger, bottom pic, really got into the mood (unlimited drink package, perhaps).

The ride is pretty smooth. 

Lights out 10:30 PM.